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Hey You Guys!  (Do you remember this from Electric Company on public television when you were little?  in the seventies?  Yeah, me neither.  Ha!) Did you know Blogger has given us lots of new fonts to play with?  Well..go on..check it out!  I'll be here when you get back.  I had no idea! : )

I've been busy-I played around with a background for our trip-it's been soooo long since I've changed, so I was feeling less spring-y and more summer-y.  Besides isn't red/white/blue perfect for DC?  I'm kinda theme-y!

I also took two little babies (well, it still seems like they are!) kids to the doctor again.  Ear infections strike again. : (  Ethan has one (his ear with the tube is fine), and Mary Claire has two.  Guess what they do when you've had an ear infection (unhealed) for a extraordinary amount of time (seven weeks?).  They give you two Rocephin shots (one on each hip) and TWO oral antibiotics-YES, all at once.  Yes, all three for her.  When you have a bulging ear drum, have diabetes, and are headed on vacation, they finally pull out all the stops.

We go back for a recheck (yes, of course they want rechecks and copays!) to see if her left ear is better.  If not, another round of shots, and another check after vacation.  Bless her heart.  The things she tolerates.  I think I'll go ahead and schedule more p.e. tubes (pressure equalizing = ear gunk drainage) for her.  I hate to do it so late-she's nine for goodness sakes!  But, I need her to have functioning ear drums in school and as an adult.

I've also been busy making chair cushion covers for my kitchen chairs!  Do you remember that new table I got?  I had lime/chocolate zebra cushions, but now they are too loud (when were they not?!), so I have toned it down.  They are now ivory/cocoa zebra...I just can't change overnight. ; )

Here is a picture of the table/cushions:

Yes, it's late here, and I didn't realize how dark it was!  And, yes, Mary Claire came out (at 11pm!) to see what I was doing. ; )

And, I am hosting Bunco for my group at my house tomorrow night.  I'm excited to have my friends over-they are wonderful and so funny!  I am thinking since I don't have a plan y-e-t for dinner, I'll make the BBQ Pork, and some delish desserts and sangria or something new! : )  That's a great reason to have friends over..all the new recipes!  They are marvelous guinea pigs ; )

I am getting geared up for VaCaTiOn! : )  Let the packing begin (since the kids start VBS tomorrow!)  Who is more excited and who is more nervous?

If you have extra prayer time, PLEASE pray for Laura's super sweet Sophie-she's had colon trouble: Crohn's and pancolitis (entire colon) sooo bad, and some of her colon came out, she's back in the hospital, and now...more tests ; ( ...so PRAY!)

Love you guys! 

Hosting Dino Decendents in Our Home

WM, Church, Bday Party (and a run by Krispy Kreme...), and Girl Scouts have filled our day! It has been a great day (besides being awakened to three kids in my room at 5:50 this am!)

Our latest project is Triops. I'm sure you've never heard of them, and will live if you never know what they are. We found them in the checkout line at Hobby Lobby (didn't your mother ever teach you not to buy stuff at the checkout? It's more expensive and usually junk!). Come to find out, they are related to dinosaurs (isn't everything?) and horseshoe crabs (like we saw in Houston-Clay even got to keep one of their discarded shells!). They hatch out of tiny, pinhead-size eggs, grow up to 2 inches, live only about 30 days, and may (may?) eat each other (hence the short life cycle?).

Well, Clay didn't have the 3.99 to buy them, so I asked him what he could do to earn the money to pay for them. He said he'd vacuum out my van (so worth $4!), so I said I'd keep the triops till he worked it off. After we got home, Ches took Sissy to church (in my van), and after we got the vacuum all ready, we opened the door to find the van gone! He just cried. : ( Finally, he got it cleaned out, and then we opened the little seed-packet-looking thing. You have to use spring water or distilled water, or they won't hatch. He desperately wanted me to go to WM last night to get the special water, but it was so cold, and had snowed so much. I'm sure it was fine, but Ches said it was getting slick after church. So, we went this am before Clay and I went to church. So, now it has to be set out in a shallow glass container, and warmed to 75-82 degrees fahrenheit. It's very specific. We also have to give them 12-16 hours of natural light, plus a lamp over them 24 hours a day for light and warmth. You can't put in the eggs till the water is warm enough, then they should hatch in 18-30 hours. What an experiment! I'll post pix if they should come out.

I started working on my chair cushion covers last night. I'm almost done. I got one made (my prototype) and all the ties for the other 5. Now, to finish sewing them all. They are cute! Brown zebra on top, and lime green on bottom. I had leftover fabric from a couple other projects, so it worked out perfectly. Just a little work. I'll take pix if the kids don't slather them with dinner!

Clay's making dinner tonight. He is working on earning the wolf badge, so we are trying to fill in all the things he's missed by joining boy scouts late. He has to plan, prepare, and clean up after dinner. Woohoo! : ) He's chosen to make pizza (frozen), black beans, cantaloupe, and cucumber, and he shopped with me for the ingredients this morning. He's already peeled/cut the cucumber, cut the cantaloupe, the beans are heating, and the oven just said it's preheated for the pizza. He's making progress! I like boy scouts!